Cessnock Airport, NSW, Australia
S 32° 46.900 E 151° 20.575
56H E 344813 N 6371701
The Cessnock Airport is about 6 km north of the rural town of Cessnock in the Hunter Valley of NSW.
Waymark Code: WMVWRF
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 06/04/2017
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The above coordinates are for the Eastern Terminal of the Airport, and the easiest to get to from Wine Country Road (Broke Road). This is right beside the Rothbury Bush Fire Brigade Unit, with its shed just over from the terminal. The Cessnock Tourist Information Centre is at this entrance.
From the Wikipedia article: (
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"Built by the Royal Australian Air Force in 1942 during World War II named as RAAF Base Pokolbin, as part of a system of parent and satellite aerodromes proposed throughout New South Wales. The aerodrome was known as RAAF Station Pokolbin. The aerodrome had two runways 5,000 by 160 ft (1,524 by 49 m) wide side by side."
"Cessnock Airport is a popular Flight training aerodrome servicing Newcastle and Lower Hunter based pilots and students. It is usually considered so popular due to its large training area, which it shares with Maitland Airport and other Hunter Region aerodromes. It is home to two flight schools, Hunter Valley Aviation (a campus of Basair Aviation College, based in Bankstown NSW) and Achieve Aviation. The airport is also home to two helicopter charter companies; Slattery Helicopter Charter and Hunter Valley Helicopters which operate from the Eastern Apron. Early morning Hot air balloon flights are also conducted in close proximity to the aerodrome in the early hours of the day."
[This is the airfield that waymarked Blogger, Alicia Cook (and husband), uses for their trips around Australia in their homemade plane.]
Address: 455 Wine Country Dr, Pokolbin, NSW, 2320
Visited: 1045, Sunday, 31 January, 2016